puzzles
Bouncy Ball 2.0
A great Yahoo widget that will allow you to play with a ball right from your desktop. more>>
Sudoku Epic is a Mac version of the famous game, sudoku. You can generate puzzles in sizes from 4x4 to 16x16 and difficulties from very easy to very hard. The Assistant can help you with scanning, markup and revealing certain numbers, allowing you to focus on the logic. You can also enter puzzles from newspapers and solve them, or see the solution. Additionally you can store puzzles and continue solving them at a later time.
System Requirements: Intel or PowerPC Mac, 1Ghz, 128 MB
<<lessSudoku Solver 3.1.1
A nice Yahoo widget that provides sudoku puzzles. more>> A nice Yahoo widget that provides sudoku puzzles.
Aids in the solving of Sudoku logic puzzles.
Main features:
- Automatic/Manual "pencilling" of candidates.
- Ability to color candidates for easy tracking.
- A Hint function for when you get stuck.
- 9x9, 12x12, or 16x16 puzzle sizes.
- Save/read puzzle files.
- A plethora of custom look preferences.
- Undo, reset and minimize functions.
- It is also able to generate puzzles.
System requirements:
- Yahoo! Widget Engine
Java Sudoku 1.0.1
Java Sudoku is a cross platform version of the popular Sudoku logic game more>>
It allows you to generate completely random Sudoku puzzles, enter your own puzzles from newspapers and magazines, or load them from Sudoku XML files. Java Sudoku can also be used as a Sudoku generator and solver.
Main features:
- Random puzzles every time you play
- Helping lines mode in the option menu, so You can see easier, if there is a collision
- 2 different systems of selecting cells and entering numbers
- 3 difficulty levels and an user custom level
- 3 Different Numbers Distributions
- Load/Save Sudoku games without any kind of losses
- Design your own puzzles - Under construction.
Twixt Puzzles 1.0
Twixt Puzzles - Challenging puzzle game widget more>>
This widget lets you play with a set of Twixt quarterboard puzzles (one 12 x 12 quadrant of a regular 24 x 24 Twixt board). These puzzles represent fairly realistic endgame conditions, and some are derived from actual games between good players.
Be warned: these are challenging puzzles!
Area Puzzles 1.2
Area Puzzles is designed to be an interesting puzzle in which students are shown a ten by ten grid sprinkled with numbers. more>>
Area Puzzles 1.2 is designed to be an interesting puzzle in which students are shown a ten by ten grid "sprinkled" with numbers. Students must fill the grid with colored rectangles so that the area of each rectangle matches the "sprinkle" number inside of it.
Area Puzzles is a set of math programs for students is grades 5 through 9. Students must fill a ten by ten grid with colored tiles so that the area of each tile agrees with the number
Evaluating Crossnumber Puzzles 1.2
Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program. Students solve crossnumber puzzles by evaluating simple expressions. Program uses only positive integers. Requirements: Mac OS 7.0 or later more>> Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program. Students solve crossnumber puzzles by evaluating simple expressions. Program uses only positive integers.
Mac OS 7.0 or later.
Version 1.2: Cosmetic improvements to the main screen
Evaluating Crossnumber Puzzles is a game functioning as a Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program. EvaluatingInteger Balance Beam Puzzles 1.3
Integer Balance Beam Puzzles is the addictive puzzle game that youll want to play again and again. Students balance a beam by using positive and negative weights. more>>
Integer Balance Beam Puzzles 1.3 is the addictive puzzle game that you'll want to play again and again. Students balance a beam by using positive and negative weights.
Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context. Students balance a beam by using positiveFortune Puzzles 1.2
Fortune Puzzles - Solve the puzzles and Madame Murghi will appear from the murky depths to tell your fortune more>>
This game works best on older Macintoshes. Compatible with system 7.0, it even works well at speeds as low as 16 mhz. Works on newer computer, but a bit clunky and without some of the visual effects.
TooHot Crossword Puzzles Compiler 0.5.0
TooHot Crossword Puzzles Compiler allows you to create custom crossword puzzles fully automatically using your own databases or built in clue-answer dictionaries more>> TooHot Crossword Puzzles Compiler allows you to create custom crossword puzzles fully automatically using your own databases or built in clue-answer dictionaries. Puzzles can be exported as HTML or published as Online-Game with popular TooHot Open Source Java Applet.
Java 1.2 or later.
Pizza Party Puzzles 1.0
Pizza Party Puzzles - Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context more>>
Students use hints to find what fraction of a pizza was eaten by each of five party-goers. Sample hints: "Judy had 2/5 of a pizza. Bill ate twice as much pizza as Judy."
Fraction Puzzles 1.5
Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context. The program shows a series of 150 preset problems more>> Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context. The program shows a series of 150 preset problems. Each problem has a blank, sectioned square and a given fraction goal. Students must shade the square to match the given fraction. The program allows students to draw lines on the screen, and to shade certain fractional parts.
Mac OS 7.0 or later.
Version 1.5:
- A help screen has been added.
- Students can now select to have the program complete the puzzle grid.
- Improved interface.
Polymath Love - Fraction Puzzles is a program displaying 166 preset issues. Fraction PuzzlesEvaluating Cross-Number Puzzles 1.0
Evaluating Cross-Number Puzzles is a beneficial and easy to use program taken on a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available from the developers Web site. more>>
Evaluating Cross-Number Puzzles 1.0 is a beneficial and easy to use program taken on a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available from the developer's Web site. Developed by a veteran teacher, these visually-oriented puzzle games have a simple interface and are designed to provide math problems in context to middle-school (grades five through nine) students.
In this particular puzzle, students solve cross-number puzzles by evaluating simple expressions. Program uses only positive integers.
Puzzle 1.1
A lovely Yahoo widget that is able to generate puzzles. more>> A lovely Yahoo widget that is able to generate puzzles.
With the Puzzle Widget, you can drop a photo from your computer or a web page onto the resizable frame and it will create a jigsaw puzzle to solve with 8 to 120 pieces!
You can rotate, reposition, and resize your photos before creating your puzzle. You also have the possibility to open a smaller window in order to see how it will look like when finished.
System requirements:
- Yahoo! Widget Engine
Joshua Coventry - Puzzle is a clone of Apples original Puzzle found as a desktop accessory on older Macintosh Systems dating from the 80s. Puzzle. Puzzle is a clone of Apples original
MacPips Jigsaw Puzzle Widget 1.2
MacPips Jigsaw Puzzle Widget is the new and fascinating latest in the line of popular Dashboard games and utilities in widget form! Drag the pieces around to complete one of three built in puzzles. Each time you play the puzzle changes. more>>
MacPips Jigsaw Puzzle Widget 1.2 is the new and fascinating latest in the line of popular Dashboard games and utilities in widget form! Drag the pieces around to complete one of three built in puzzles. Each time you play the puzzle changes.
Jigsaw Widget gives you 3 puzzles to choose from:
- easy iPod
- tricky Penguins
- fiendish Pebbles
MacPips Jigsaw Puzzle is the full-featured version of
<<lessJigsaw Widget, the latest in our line of popular Dashboard games and utilities, is our take on the classic jigsaw puzzle! MacPipsJigsaw Puzzle Player for Mac OS X 1.0.4
Play jigsaw puzzles on your Mac OS X computer, its just like the real thing but without the hassle. The free JPP software includes several free jigsaw puzzles. More puzzles are available from the www. more>>
JPP lets you work on multiple puzzles and switch between them, the program automatically remembers the state of each puzzle, so that you can continue with it later. Play small puzzles that fit within your screen or use the smart zooming, navigating and splitscreen features to play large puzzles with several hundred pieces.
